links for 2011-05-06

"This Saturday, Broadmoor will celebrate the two-year anniversary of the “Dot.” At 3:45 p.m. at the Rosa F. Keller Library and Center, a brass band will lead a short parade back to the neutral ground on the 3700 block of Napoleon Ave, where it all began. There will be a green dot cake and folks are encouraged to wear a dot or two on their person. After all, it was partially due to the dot that Broadmoor that rose up and told the bureaucrats that they couldn’t turn our neighborhood into a drainage ditch.

As one local newsman later told me: “If you really want to spark a neighborhood to rebuild, just draw a green dot around it and tell them they can’t come back.” "

"This is the plan that launched a thousand ships, an armada of civic pride and activism. It was a plan that united us to fight against it."